1.  A brief comment on each of these areas will confirm the point made last year that areas with strong market positions and fixed supply situations held up reasonably well.

2.  Also, with only a few scattered infill sites available for new construction, there is a relatively fixed supply of these properties.

3.  But since no one is excluded, many share a fixed supply of fish, effectively wasting most of the labor and capital that goes into fishing.

4.  Certainly, rates generally have not risen since the quake, and there is not a fixed supply of capital in the world.

5.  Economists like to tax things that are in fixed supply because the same amount is available whether or not the tax is imposed.

6.  In a switch from fixed supply contracts of the past, Alcoa and other producers rolled out a new pricing formula for can sheet last January.

7.  With a growing demand and a fixed supply, dealers say prices for Mantle memorabilia should go even higher.